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Winners of App Throwdown Contest to Present at SugarCon 2012

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Six Developers Will Present SugarCRM Apps Live, Get Feedback from Industry Analysts

CUPERTINO, Calif. – April 18, 2012 – The most creative and innovative app developers will get their time in the limelight during the App Throwdown at SugarCon 2012 (April 23-26, 2012), the annual conference from SugarCRM, the world’s fastest-growing customer relationship management (CRM) company. After considering numerous entries for the App Throwdown, SugarCRM has announced the six winners, who will demo their apps on April 24 at 3pm:

Blake Robertson, Alertus

Tony Cappaert, Contactually

Danny Mulvihill, Epicom

John Morrell, EasyAsk

Lou Leporace, NextPrinciples

Rosaline Gulati, ActivePrime

The App Throwdown event will allow these talented developers to showcase their creations before SugarCon attendees. During the live three-minute app demos, the following CRM industry analysts and experts will offer commentary on the apps’ usability and functionality within the SugarCRM environment:

Paul Greenberg, President, The 56 Group

Brent Leary, Founder, CRM Essentials

Esteban Kolsky, Founder, thinkJar

Denis Pombriant, CEO, Beagle Research Group

Lila Tretikov, CIO, SugarCRM

The demos by the six Throwdown winners will be videotaped and made available to the SugarCRM community.

More About SugarCon 2012

SugarCon 2012’s theme is “Explore the Possibilities of CRM,” inspiring attendees to dig deeper into the CRM discipline. In keeping with SugarCRM’s open approach to business, the CRM community, not SugarCRM, built the conference schedule based on attendee suggestions and online voting. The event will offer eight tracks with more than 80 breakout sessions, providing plenty of opportunities for networking.

About SugarCRM

SugarCRM makes CRM simple. As the world's fastest growing customer relationship management (CRM) company, SugarCRM applications have been downloaded more than ten million times and currently serve over 1,000,000 end users in 192 countries. Over 7,000 organizations have chosen SugarCRM's On-Site and Cloud Computing services over proprietary alternatives. SugarCRM has been recognized for its customer success and product innovation by CRM Magazine, InfoWorld and Customer Interaction Solutions.